A 57-minute interview with Joyce Appleby, hosted by Marshall Poe, devoted directly to The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism. This is the best place to start because Appleby explains her central argument that capitalism was a historically specific development rather than the inevitable expression of a timeless human instinct to trade.
\nThis is the Apple Podcasts channel for the New Books Network's economic and business-history interviews. The Apple catalogue doesn't currently expose a stable direct link to the old Appleby episode, so search “Joyce Appleby” within the show; the open-web link above is easier for this particular episode.
\nThis 1-hour 13-minute conversation pairs Appleby with entrepreneur and writer Peter Barnes to discuss whether capitalism can reconcile private interests with the public good. It isn't simply a summary of Relentless Revolution; it takes the historical framework of the book and pushes it toward questions about what capitalism might look like in the twenty-first century.
\nC-SPAN — Q&A with Joyce Appleby
\nBrian Lamb's May 16, 2010 Q&A with Appleby features an extended discussion of The Relentless Revolution. It's technically a television interview rather than a podcast, but it's long-form and works very well as an audio listen if you want Appleby to elaborate on the intellectual background and arguments of the book.
\nThis is a much shorter ~8-minute interview with Appleby focused on capitalism's historical role in generating wealth and how it compares with competing economic systems. It's useful as a compact distillation of a few of the book's big claims, but substantially less nuanced than the New Books or ALOUD conversations.
\nJohn Green gives an 18-minute overview of the emergence of industrial capitalism and socialism, and the episode explicitly lists Appleby's The Relentless Revolution among its sources. It's not an interview with Appleby and doesn't engage her thesis in depth, but it's a useful quick historical scaffold before or alongside the book.
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